Storytelling for Life - Book Blog

My next step was to begin to bring together all the writing I have done on the chosen storytelling chapters over the years. I looked through all my workshop and seminar handouts and notes for the activities and processes that I consider to have become my best practices. I dug through all my blog entries, articles and stories for relevant ideas and content. I looked through the various abstracts and papers I had composed for academic presentations and pulled them apart for what belongs here and then I added all that to the chapters in my binder, too.
 
Now I know what to do with all that stuff I’ve been saving in so many different forms, for so long. And BONUS … my office is getting more organized too!
 
Even though more relevant writing does keep appearing as I dig through my computer files I have decided to move ahead. Some of these chapters contain topics that I have written prolifically about and others – not so much. With those my growth has been a more internal process and hasn’t yet been documented. With my work in the New Book Model binder format, it’s easy to see that there are some gaps and that I have some keyboard pounding to do!
 
Another tip from Dan Poynter is to put the story content together in book format right away. He suggested writing in page layout format with MS-Word and I love it! It feels like I really am writing a book!